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Identifier: archaeologicaljo54brit (find matches)
Title: The Archaeological journal
Year: 1844 (1840s)
Authors: British Archaeological Association. Central Committee Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Central Committee Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Central Committee Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Council Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Royal Archaeological Institute (Great Britain)
Subjects: Archaeology -- Periodicals Middle Ages -- History Periodicals Great Britain -- Antiquities Periodicals
Publisher: (London : Longman, Rrown,(sic) Green, and Longman
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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that it was onlyevery fourth panel which had a border, thus giving avariety to a composition which would otherwise havebeen somewhat monotonous in effect. The borders werevaried in design. In a (the square end panel) the borderis double, the outer one being a simple fret, the inner aline of triangles within broad plain bands, and this ))ordercrosses the field of the panel, taking the shape of a St.Andrews Cross. In b a double row of triangles withbroad plain bands surrounds the field, and the panel isbounded on either hand by a band of fretwork passing quiteacross the floor from side to side. Panels a and b are, ashas been noted elsewhere, exceptional in arrangement. In The Institute is indebted to tlie of Iriconiinii, )iublis)ied in Vol. XVII courtesy of tlic council of the British of the Journal of the Brit. Archceol. AjchsDolopioal Association for the loan Axkoc, and frequently cited in the of this illustration, made by Mr. Cleorge present account.Maw, for his paper on the Mosaics
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WROXETER. PAVEMENT DISCOVERED IN 1827. (From a drawing in a MS. volume by T. F.Dukes, entitled Uriconium,in the library of the Society of Antiquaries of London). URICONIUM. 1G5 c tlie border consists of a simple braid, the only curvilinearform to be found in this floor. ^Jhe area enclosed b)^ itappears to have been divided into three long- compart-ments, but what they contained has entirely vanished. Ine a band of fret of considerable size ))orders the field. A reference to PI, III will show that between thepanels h and c there is a gap, from which the mosaicshave disappeared, and that the same is the case betweend and e; but, as in each instance the interval, if dividedin half, would give spaces corresponding to two of theneighbouring panels, the conclusion may be safely drawnthat the vacant intervals were originally filled by panelscorresponding in size with those still traceal)le. Beyondh there are no further remains of the floor ; but if afurther panel be imagined, its western bou

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